Police interventions follow one another on rue Saint-Guillaume, in Paris, on the orders of the police headquarters. After the evacuation, on May 6, of tents set up on the sidewalk by activists from the Palestine Sciences Po committee, two other operations followed, Tuesday morning and early afternoon.
Two students were arrested around 9:30 a.m. during the intervention of the police, and placed in police custody for rebellion, participation in a demonstration by hiding one’s face, participation in a gathering despite summons to disperse, specifies the Paris prosecutor’s office. “Depending on the elements reported to us, the prosecution will analyze the materiality and criminal classification of the facts, as well as the direction to be given”he adds.
At noon, around a hundred students gathered to denounce these two arrests and reaffirm their wish that the school management set up a working group to ” investigate “ Sciences Po’s academic and economic partnerships with Israeli institutions. Two other groups joined the procession, one made up of several dozen employees and teachers from Sciences Po, at the call of the FO union, and the other of around fifty students from Sorbonne University, who had blocked Tuesday morning their Clignancourt campus.
“All eyes on Rafah”
Brandishing a sign stating that “Students give us hope”, Flora Chanvril, school employee and FO representative at the CSE, joins the demand of a working group on partnerships. “For us, cutting partnerships is not a good idea, but we believe, however, that it is essential to discuss it on the merits and to set real criteria, whatever the country, which are not based solely on ecological considerations”she explained.
A few meters from the students, the leader of the Les Républicains list in the European elections, François-Xavier Bellamy, was present. “I came here to be the voice of all the students who do not want to see Sciences Po reduced to these permanent blockages. Students who block exams must be deprived of exams, foreign students who contribute to these problems must be returned to their country. he said. Coming to meet him, Louis Boyard, deputy of La France insoumise, replied: “ You go from pretext to pretext every time to never talk about the fact that there is a genocide in Gaza. »
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